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Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program

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U.S. workplace deaths remain a public health crisis, with over 5,000 annual fatalities concentrated in high-risk sectors like construction, transportation, and agriculture. To address this under the OSH Act, NIOSH runs the Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) program, a non-regulatory initiative providing safety guidance through independent, non-enforcement investigations. Structurally, FACE operates as a unified effort split into two distinct, complementary branches: a centralized, national In-House program run directly by NIOSH, and a decentralized network of State FACE programs funded via cooperative agreements. While both share common goals and methods, they differ significantly in their organizational structure, authority, influence, and how they implement findings locally across diverse regional industries. Together, they generate extensive prevention resources and adapt to emerging workplace hazards.

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  • Workers Killed While Working with Granite
    Workers Killed While Working with Granite
    University of Kentucky. College of Public Health. Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center
    2009/10/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    To prevent injuries while working with granite: A job hazard analysis should be conducted each day before work commences. Employees should be trained in proper material handling procedures that include handling and transport of granite slabs. Use slab carts or slab racks to transport granite slabs and use tiedowns to secure the granite slabs to the ...
  • Farmer Died When Portable Elevator Fell Onto Him
    Farmer Died When Portable Elevator Fell Onto Him
    Michigan Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Project) (MIFACE)  ...
    2009/09/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    In the fall of 2008, a 68-year-old male farmer died when a portable farm elevator fell onto him as he was pulling it away from an ear corn bin with a 7 HP lawn tractor. He had attached a chain to the elevator's axle and to the rear axle of the lawn tractor. There were approximately two bushels of ear corn at the top of the elevator. As he was movin ...
  • Police Officer Dies when Struck by a Car at Night while Directing Traffic at a Local Fair Massachusetts
    Police Officer Dies when Struck by a Car at Night while Directing Traffic at a Local Fair - Massachusetts
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    2009/09/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On August 16, 2008, a 67-year-old male police officer (victim) was fatally injured when struck by a car while performing a traffic detail. The victim was directing traffic at night for a local annual fair and had been stationed at a T-shaped intersection close to the fairground's main entrance. Property owners along this and other roadways near the ...
  • An Electrical Worker Dies When He Falls Through a Skylight While Installing Solar Panels on the Roof of a Warehouse
    An Electrical Worker Dies When He Falls Through a Skylight While Installing Solar Panels on the Roof of a Warehouse
    Cierpich, Hank ;
    Harrison, Robert
    2009/09/10 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 46-year-old electrical worker died when he fell through a skylight on a roof while installing solar panels. The victim was carrying solar panels and walking backwards because of the limited space around the skylight. As the victim was walking backwards, he tripped on the raised edge of the skylight frame and fell onto the skylight. The skylight g ...
  • Construction Injury Narrative Framer Falls 8 Feet from Extension Ladder 2009
    Construction Injury Narrative: Framer Falls 8 Feet from Extension Ladder [2009]
    Departamento de Salud Pública de California
    2009/09/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Juan D. * (*No es el nombre real de la víctima), un técnico en energía solar de 34 años de edad, murió tras ser herido en el trabajo. El estaba subiendo un soporte de metal al techo donde estaba trabajando. Juan estaba parado en un andamio y levantando el soporte de metal cuando la punta del soporte de metal tocó un cable eléctrico de alto voltaje ...
  • FACE Facts Solar Energy Technician Electrocuted
    FACE Facts: Solar Energy Technician Electrocuted!
    California. Department of Public Health
    2009/09/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 34-year-old solar energy technician, Juan D.*(*Not the victim's real name), died after being injured at work. He was bringing a metal brace to a rooftop work site. Juan was standing on a scaffold and lifting the brace up from the ground with a rope. He grabbed one end of the metal brace when it reached the top of the scaffold. The other end of th ...
  • Workers Electrocuted While Working in Elevated Buckets
    Workers Electrocuted While Working in Elevated Buckets
    University of Kentucky. College of Public Health. Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center
    2009/09/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    To prevent worker electrocutions while working near overhead power lines: Employers should implement and enforce a formal written electrical safety training program that includes work around overhead lines. An observer should be designated by the employer to perform an electrical hazard evaluation prior to commencing new work activities. A hazard a ...
  • Solid Waste Driver Dies After Single Vehicle Rollover
    Solid Waste Driver Dies After Single Vehicle Rollover
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    2009/08/28 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On the morning of a fall day in 2008, a 59 year-old male solid waste worker (Driver 1) entered the cab of a company solid waste truck parked in his driveway and drove to a restaurant a few miles away. After leaving the restaurant, the driver was observed weaving by another solid waste driver (Driver 2) at least two times in the northbound lane of a ...
  • Construction Laborer Dies After Being Crushed Under a Concrete Patio Foundation
    Construction Laborer Dies After Being Crushed Under a Concrete Patio Foundation
    Cierpich, Hank ;
    Harrison, Robert
    2009/08/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 32-year-old Hispanic construction laborer died after being crushed under a concrete patio foundation. The victim was performing an excavation under a concrete patio foundation when it collapsed on him. The concrete patio foundation that fell on the victim was not part of the building foundation and was not supported to prevent it from falling. Th ...
  • Fatality Narrative Aerial Work Platform Operator Pinned Between Basket and Overhead Beam
    Fatality Narrative: Aerial Work Platform Operator Pinned Between Basket and Overhead Beam
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2009/08/19 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On February 21, 2008, the operator of a hydraulic extending boom platform was crushed between the lift's basket and a beam. The 39-year-old carpenter and welder was employed by a company that supplies and erects panelized roof, steel and wood roof and floor structures. He was helping to build a warehouse. The victim, who had considerable experience ...
  • Research Associate Dies from Burns Sustained While Working with a Pyrophoric Chemical
    Research Associate Dies from Burns Sustained While Working with a Pyrophoric Chemical
    Cierpich, Hank ;
    Harrison, Robert
    2009/08/11 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 23-year-old female research associate died from burn injuries sustained in a research laboratory fire. The victim was using a syringe and needle to extract a pyrophoric chemical (t-butyl lithium) from a bottle. The plunger came out of the syringe barrel and the t-butyl lithium ignited on contact with room air. The chemical splashed onto the victi ...
  • Worker Fatality Alert Two Solar Energy Installers Die from Electrical and Fall Hazards
    Worker Fatality Alert: Two Solar Energy Installers Die from Electrical and Fall Hazards
    California. Department of Public Health
    2009/08/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Prevention Points: Train all workers on the hazards of electrocution from high voltage power lines; Protect all workers from falling through skylights. The California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (CA/FACE) program tracks and investigates cases of fatal injuries at work, and makes prevention recommendations for employers and employees. ...
  • Lineman Electrocuted When He Contacted 7200volt Power Line
    Lineman Electrocuted When He Contacted 7,200-volt Power Line
    Michigan Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Project) (MIFACE)  ...
    2009/07/31 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On June 2, 2008, a 47-year-old male journeyman lineman/foreman was electrocuted during the installation of a new 15 KV switch for a single phase, 7,200-volt overhead power line suspended from a wood pole. The decedent was working from an insulated aerial bucket. He had not de-energized the can arrestor fastened to the side of the transformer. He ha ...
  • Seventeen Year Old Female Laborer Falls from Residential Roof and Dies Nine Days Later Connecticut FACE 200710
    Seventeen Year Old Female Laborer Falls from Residential Roof and Dies Nine Days Later - Connecticut: FACE 2007-10
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    2009/07/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On July 2, 2007, a 17-year-old female laborer (the victim) fell approximately 26 feet from a residential roof to a stone patioshe died nine days later from her injuries. The victim was working for a construction company replacing a residential roof. The victim unloaded bales of roofing shingles from a construction box that was raised and attached t ...
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  • Trabajador hispano de un aserradero muere luego de quedar atrapado bajo unos troncos de una pila que se derrumb en Carolina del Norte
    Trabajador hispano de un aserradero muere luego de quedar atrapado bajo unos troncos de una pila que se derrumbó en Carolina del Norte.
    Romano, Nancy T.
    2009/07/29 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    El 10 de abril del 2007, un trabajador hispano de un aserradero, de 20 años (la víctima), murió cuando quedó atrapado bajo unos troncos de una pila que se derrumbó. La víctima se había subido a la pila de troncos, de aproximadamente 14 pies de alto, y estaba sacando una lona de plástico que los cubría cuando la pila se derrumbó y los troncos salier ...
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  • Hispanic Yard Worker Dies After Being Pinned by a Release of Logs from a Log Stack North Carolina FACE 200705
    Hispanic Yard Worker Dies After Being Pinned by a Release of Logs from a Log Stack - North Carolina: FACE 2007-05
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    2009/07/29 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On April 10, 2007, a 20-year-old Hispanic yard worker (the victim) was killed when he was pinned by a release of logs from a log stack. The victim climbed up on the log stack approximately 14 feet in height and was removing a plastic tarp covering when the logs released and rolled out of the stack. The unconscious victim was pinned from the waist d ...
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  • Tow Truck Driver Dies When Pinned Under Car
    Tow Truck Driver Dies When Pinned Under Car
    Michigan Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Project) (MIFACE)  ...
    2009/07/23 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On August 7, 2008, a 52-year-old male tow truck driver was critically injured when he was pinned under a vehicle he was attempting to start. A vehicle driver had pulled off to the side of the road after he thought he had run out of gas. The driver called for assistance and the decedent was dispatched to the site. After the decedent placed gas in th ...
  • Mechanic Killed when Aerial Work Platform Collapses
    Mechanic Killed when Aerial Work Platform Collapses
    New York State Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (NY FACE)  ...
    2009/07/23 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    In August 2007, a 54 year-old mechanic sustained fatal injuries when the aerial work platform he was riding on collapsed. Another worker suffered serious injuries and survived. The incident occurred at a college campus where the two workers were installing a sign on the campus Field House. The Field House is approximately 35 feet high and the sign ...
  • Farmer killed when large round bale tumbled from forks in loader bucket
    Farmer killed when large round bale tumbled from forks in loader bucket
    Madsen, Murray D. ;
    Rautiainen, Risto
    2009/07/09 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Late in 2007, a 60-year-old farmer died while operating his tractor when a large round bale of cornstalks spilled from the forks in the tractor's front-end loader bucket onto him. The loader had been modified by the temporary installation of a 3-point hitch bale fork placed in the tractor's loader bucket. The heel of the bale fork's frame was loose ...
  • Tractor with Cable Hitched High to Tow Brush Overturned Rearward on Farmer
    Tractor with Cable Hitched High to Tow Brush Overturned Rearward on Farmer
    Madsen, Murray D. ;
    Rautiainen, Risto
    2009/07/06 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 56-year-old farmer from east central Iowa died early in the spring of 2003. He was clearing brush, limbs, and fallen trees from along a creek gully at the edge of a pasture on his farm. A strip of level ground separated the creek from a berm that ran parallel to it and hid the work area from view of the farmstead. He was dragging the load toward ...
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